"rose is a rose,"" was also an important literary force during this time period. American poet Marianne Moore (1887–1972) published from the 1920s to the 1960s. But while modernism was to become an important literary movement in the early decades of the new century, there were also many fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. During the early decades of the 20th century the Georgian poets like Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), and John Masefield (1878–1967, Poet Laureate from 1930) maintained a conservative approach to poetry by combining romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism, sandwiched as they"
"Richard Eberhart Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. ""Richard Eberhart emerged out of the 1930s as a modern stylist with romantic sensibilities."" He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for ""Selected Poems, 1930–1965"" and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for ""Collected Poems, 1930–1976"". He is the grandfather of former Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington. Eberhart was born in 1904 in Austin, a small city in southeast Minnesota. He grew up on an estate of"
"Lochhead an honorary doctor of letters degree. Douglas Lochhead Douglas Grant Lochhead (pronounced ""Lock""-heed) FRSC (March 25, 1922 – March 15, 2011) was a Canadian poet, academic librarian, bibliographer and university professor who published more than 30 collections of poetry over five decades, from 1959 to 2009. He was a founding member and vice-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets and was elected its first secretary in 1968. He served as president of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (1974–76), and was a member of bibliographical societies in the U.S. and Britain. In 1976, he was named a Fellow of the"
"Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. Richard Eberhart Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. ""Richard Eberhart emerged out of the 1930s as a modern stylist with romantic sensibilities."" He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for ""Selected Poems, 1930–1965"" and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for ""Collected Poems, 1930–1976"". He is the grandfather of former Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington. Eberhart was born in 1904 in Austin, a small city in southeast"
"Philip Levine (poet) Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well. He served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012. Philip Levine grew up in industrial Detroit, the second of three sons and the first of identical twins of Jewish immigrant parents. His"
"The first was Carter Warner Wormeley, appointed for life. Appointments from 1942 until 1992 were for one year, with many reappointed for multiple terms. In 1992, the term was increased to two years. Since 1998 appointments are made from list of nominees presented by the Poetry Society of Virginia, established at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1923. The current Poet Laureate of Wisconsin is Karla Huston, 2017-2018 Eugene Gagliano has been the Poet Laureate of Wyoming since July 2016. Poet laureate A poet laureate (plural: poets laureates) is a poet officially appointed by a government"
"created an office of Poet Laureate. The holders may be locally or nationally prominent. The office of Poet Laureate of Alabama was created for Samuel Minturn Peck in 1930. The post has been continuously filled since 1954 on a four-year renewable basis. Poets Laureate serve at the pleasure of the governor. The state of Arizona established a state Poet Laureate position in 2013, appointing Alberto Ríos as the inaugural Poet Laureate. The state of California established a state Poet Laureate under Governor Hiram Warren Johnson and appointed Ina Donna Coolbrith on June 30, 1915. Coolbrith was later acknowledged as the"
"five years. Originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry, in 1989 it was named after Livesay. Dorothy Livesay Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, (October 12, 1909 – December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was ""senior woman writer in Canada"" during the 1970s and 1980s. Livesay was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her mother, Florence Randal Livesay, was a poet and journalist; her father, J.F.B. Livesay was the General Manager of Canadian Press. Livesay moved to Toronto, Ontario, with her family in 1920. She graduated with a BA in 1931"
"Poets (1983), the Guggenheim Foundation (1958, 1964), and the Rockefeller Foundation (1968). Maurice English Poetry Award for ""Relations"" (1987). Poem selected for ""The Best American Poetry 1999"". Poets' Prize (2001) for ""Lifelines"". Philip Booth (poet) Philip Edmund Booth (October 8, 1925 – July 2, 2007) was an American poet and educator; he has been called ""Maine's clearest poetic voice."" Booth was born in 1925 in Hanover, New Hampshire. Booth served in the United States Air Force in the Second World War. He then attended Dartmouth College, where he studied with Robert Frost; he received his B.A. in 1947. He subsequently"
"Poet Laureate Program The Sacramento Poet Laureate Program was established in February 2000, and is designed to extend and bring to life the power and beauty of poetry and the spoken word to our community and to increase literary awareness in Sacramento County. The Sacramento Poet Laureate Program strives to encourage literary awareness by the general public and celebrates the high caliber of talent among Sacramento’s poets. Past Poets Laureate include: Bob Stanley, Sacramento Poet Laureate, 2009-2011 Julia Connor, Sacramento Poet Laureate, 2005-2008 José Montoya, Sacramento Poet Laureate, 2002-2004 Dennis Schmitz and Viola Weinberg, Sacramento Poets Laureate, 2000-2002 The Arts"
"Douglas Lochhead Douglas Grant Lochhead (pronounced ""Lock""-heed) FRSC (March 25, 1922 – March 15, 2011) was a Canadian poet, academic librarian, bibliographer and university professor who published more than 30 collections of poetry over five decades, from 1959 to 2009. He was a founding member and vice-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets and was elected its first secretary in 1968. He served as president of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (1974–76), and was a member of bibliographical societies in the U.S. and Britain. In 1976, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Lochhead's best-known book,"
"mystic music."" He often referenced roses in his poems. On March 22, 1929, a Joint Resolution was passed in the California legislature to name Dr. Bland the Poet Laureate. The title given was The Laurel Crowned Poet of California (Statutes of 1929, Resolution Chapter 23). California began the practice of having a poet laureate in 1915. Bland died after two years while serving a life-term appointment as California's Poet Laureate. Henry Meade Bland Henry Meade Bland (April 21, 1863 – April 30, 1931) was a California educator and poet, who became California Poet Laureate in 1929 after succeeding California's first"
"Henry James Pye Henry James Pye (; 10 February 1744 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet, and Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. He was the first poet laureate to receive a fixed salary of £27 instead of the historic tierce of Canary wine (though it was still a fairly nominal payment; then as now the Poet Laureate had to look to extra sales generated by the prestige of the office to make significant money from the Laureateship). Pye was born in London, the son of Henry Pye of Faringdon House in Berkshire, and his wife, Mary"
"followed by Carl Sandburg (1962 - 1967), and Gwendolyn Brooks (1968 - 2000), all with lifetime appointments. The post is now a four-year renewable award. The Illinois poet laureate since 2003 has been Kevin Stein. The position was created July 1, 1999 by Subchapter 303.89 of the Iowa Code with a two-year renewable term. Marvin Bell was Iowa's first poet laureate, from 2000-2004. Mary Swander was the poet laureate of Iowa as of April 2016. The city of Takoma Park Poet Laureate program, established in 2005, honors the achievements of a local poet, encouraging a wider appreciation of poetry and"
"been adjusted for inflation and is now considered a moderate bonus intended to supplement a poet's already-existing income. Most Poets Laureate earn the bulk of their income through University employment. Tracy K. Smith is the current laureate. Previous laureates include Juan Felipe Herrera, Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, Charles Simic, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Karl Shapiro, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Joseph Brodsky, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Hass, Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky (three terms), Mark Strand, Audre Lorde, and Maxine Kumin. A number of American state legislatures have also"
"Billy Collins William James Collins, known as Billy Collins, (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. In 2016, Collins retired from his position as a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York after teaching there almost 50 years. Collins is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. Collins was considered as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. As"
"published several topical paperback volumes. His poetry can be viewed today on a website created and maintained by his granddaughter, Angela Mapes Turner. Arthur Franklin Mapes Arthur Franklin Mapes was a poet who lived between 16 March 1913 and January 4, 1986. Among his works is the poem ""Indiana,"" adopted as the Official State Poem of Indiana in 1963. In 1977, he was designated Indiana State Poet Laureate, a position that was not officially recognized by the State of Indiana until July 1, 2005. Much of his poetry reflected his humble beginnings and the love he had for his hometown,"
"Ruth Pitter Emma Thomas ""Ruth"" Pitter, CBE, FRSL (7 November 1897 – 29 February 1992) was a 20th-century British poet. She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appointed a CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature. In 1974, she was named a ""Companion of Literature"", the highest honour given by the Royal Society of Literature. Pitter was born in Ilford. Her birth certificate reports her given name simply as ""Ruth."" She was employed at the War Office from 1915 to 1917, later working as a painter"
"Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald (1981), Stanley Lombardo (2005), Robert Fagles (2006), Sarah Ruden (2008), and Barry B. Powell (2015). As with other classical Latin poetry, the meter is based on the length of syllables rather than the stress, though the interplay of meter and stress is also important. Virgil also incorporated such poetic devices as alliteration, onomatopoeia, synecdoche, and assonance. Furthermore, he uses personification, metaphor and simile in his work, usually to add drama and tension to the scene. An example of a simile can be found in book II when Aeneas is compared to a shepherd who stood on"
"laureate was George Bowering, in 2002. In 2004, the title was transferred to Pauline Michel, in 2006 to John Steffler until December 3, 2008, to Pierre DesRuisseaux on April 28, 2009, and to Fred Wah in December 2011. Michel Pleau was installed in January, 2014. Poets Laureate of Dominican Republic include: Pedro Mir (1984). Officially designated Laureate includes Tsegaye GebreMedhin. Tsegaye's award is made by the commissioned/established by His Majesty, Haile-Selasie II. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsegaye_Gabre-Medhin http://www.tsegaye.se/ Poets Laureate of Nazi Germany include: Hanns Johst from 1935 to 1946. Sripada Krishnamurty Sastry was the first poet laureate of Andhra Pradesh, India. Kannadasan was"
"from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977. Dove taught creative writing at Arizona State University from 1981 to 1989. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. In 1992, she was named United States Poet Laureate by the Librarian of Congress, an office she held from 1993 to 1995. At age 40, Dove was the youngest person to hold the position and is the first African American to hold the position since the title was changed to Poet Laureate (Robert Hayden had served as the first non-white Consultant in Poetry from 1976 to 1978, and"
"30th anniversary edition. He is on the advisory board at the ""Southern Review"", and is similarly named in other journals. Other Awards include these from ""Poetry"" magazine: Collections Billy Collins William James Collins, known as Billy Collins, (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. In 2016, Collins retired from his position as a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York after teaching there almost 50 years. Collins is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College, Winter Park,"
"Henry Meade Bland Henry Meade Bland (April 21, 1863 – April 30, 1931) was a California educator and poet, who became California Poet Laureate in 1929 after succeeding California's first Poet Laureate, Ina Coolbrith. Bland was born on April 21, 1863 in Fairfield in Solano County, California. He earned undergraduate degrees from the University of the Pacific and an M.A. degree in 1895 and a Ph.D. in 1890 from Stanford. He worked as a teacher and principal for 15 years at schools in Los Gatos, Santa Clara, and San Jose before joining the San Jose Normal School in 1899 to"
"Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. She is considered one of the finest poets of the 20th century. Elizabeth Bishop, an only child, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, to William Thomas and Gertrude May (Bulmer) Bishop. After her father, a successful builder, died when she"
"""Loved Laurel-Crowned Poet of California"" by a 1919 state Senate resolution, retaining the title until her death in 1928. Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown in March, 2012. The State of Colorado appointed one of the most popular Poets Laureate of the late 20th century, singer/songwriter writer John Denver. Twin Poets, Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills, were selected as 17th Poets Laureate of the State of Delaware on December 13, 2015. Edmund Skellings was selected as the poet laureate of Florida in 1980. He died in 2012. Illinois appointed its first poet laureate, Howard Austin, in 1936,"
"win the Governor General's Award in 1966. Michael Ondaatje has said the following of Souster: ""He brought many of us to the surface and we owe him everything."" Souster was one of the six founders of the League of Canadian Poets in 1966. He was the League's first president from 1967 to 1972. The early 1960s were a prolific and distinguished period for Souster, culminating in his own Governor General's Award in 1964 for his Collected Poems, ""The Colour of the Times."" ""In the late 1960s, he embarked on the revision of his early poetry with a view to its"
"brief spell behind the lines. John Masefield John Edward Masefield (; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels ""The Midnight Folk"" and ""The Box of Delights"", and the poems ""The Everlasting Mercy"" and ""Sea-Fever"". Masefield was born in Ledbury in Herefordshire, to Caroline and George Masefield, a solicitor. His mother died giving birth to his sister when Masefield was only six, and he went to live with his aunt. His father died soon"
"Saint-John Perse Saint-John Perse (; also Saint-Leger Leger, ; pseudonyms of Alexis Leger) (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 ""for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."" He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the United States until 1967. Alexis Leger was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. His great-grandfather, a solicitor, had settled in Guadeloupe in 1815. His grandfather and father were also solicitors; his father was also a member of the city council. The Leger family"
"elected permanent secretary of the Academy, a position he held until his death. Uppsala University, Karlfeldt's alma mater, awarded him the title of Doctor honoris causae in 1917. Erik Axel Karlfeldt Erik Axel Karlfeldt (20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931 after he had been nominated by Nathan Söderblom, member of the Swedish Academy. It has been rumored that he had been offered, but declined, the award already in 1919. Karlfeldt was born into a farmer's"
"contest. The annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest is named after Kathryn Irene Glascock. Glascock was a young poet who graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1922. Glascock died in 1923. Shortly after her death, Glascock's parents established the Glascock Prize. It became an intercollegiate event in 1924. The Glascock Poetry Competition has launched the careers of many of America's most important poets including James Merrill who won in 1946 (and participated in 1938), Sylvia Plath who won in 1955, Kenneth Koch in 1948, Donald Hall who took second place in 1951 and Gjertrud Schnackenberg in 1973. Other notable participants"
"Arthur Franklin Mapes Arthur Franklin Mapes was a poet who lived between 16 March 1913 and January 4, 1986. Among his works is the poem ""Indiana,"" adopted as the Official State Poem of Indiana in 1963. In 1977, he was designated Indiana State Poet Laureate, a position that was not officially recognized by the State of Indiana until July 1, 2005. Much of his poetry reflected his humble beginnings and the love he had for his hometown, Kendallville, and state. His poetry also reflected his feelings on God, family, and nature. Many of his poems were printed in national and"
"Poems 1956–1987"" was published as part of the Library of America series. This made Ashbery the first living poet to have his work published by the LOA. John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet. He published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection ""Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"". Renowned for its postmodern complexity and opacity, Ashbery's work still proves controversial. Ashbery stated that he wished his work to be accessible to as many people"
"Nebraska–Lincoln. Prior to teaching at Nebraska Wesleyan, Kloefkorn taught at Wichita State University and at Ellinwood High School in Ellinwood, Kansas. In 1982, Kloefkorn was appointed State Poet of Nebraska, a position roughly equivalent to Poet Laureate. (In 1921, the Nebraska Legislature permanently bestowed the title of Poet Laureate of Nebraska on John Neihardt, who died in 1973. A successor to this title has not been named.) Kloefkorn died in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was succeeded as State Poet by his student Twyla Hansen in 2013. In addition to his literary honors, Kloefkorn boasted that he won first place in the"